So he did — moving to New York City and creating solo pieces that addressed touchy LGBT issues, such as HIV/AIDS and marriage and immigration equality. He also launched P.S. 122, in New York, and Highways, in Santa Monica — performance ... he 50-year-old queer performance artist, who brings his latest work, Lay of the Land, to Cleveland’s Ingenuity Festival next week, voted for Obama in the last election. And so he’s not thrilled with the recent actions of the president (and so-called “fierce advocate” for LGBT rights).
“We’ve been thrown under the bus and run over a thousand times since January,” Miller tells me from Los Angeles, where he’s preparing for his Northeast Ohio performances.
And he’s just getting started.
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Tim Miller Lays It Out At Ingenuity
Posted by
DividedByLaw 1056 days ago
(http://www.spanglemagazine.com)
Principles and Pragmatism
Posted by
ExileComingHome 1056 days ago
(http://www.metroweekly.com)
IT IS SOMETIMES DONE with baby steps, other times with great leaps, and every so often it's done in circles. Still, advocates and enemies alike would have a difficult time denying that modern history has seen the GLBT community moving steadily in the direction of full equality.
The value of a particular step may, however, be difficult to gauge at the time. Some who remember the Stonewall Riots say they didn't regard the moment as historic. Then again, those masses at the 2000 Millennium March on Washington may have thought they were heralding in a new gay millennium. Maybe they were. Time will judge.
Time will also judge the Dallas Principles, a core set of beliefs crafted in...
The value of a particular step may, however, be difficult to gauge at the time. Some who remember the Stonewall Riots say they didn't regard the moment as historic. Then again, those masses at the 2000 Millennium March on Washington may have thought they were heralding in a new gay millennium. Maybe they were. Time will judge.
Time will also judge the Dallas Principles, a core set of beliefs crafted in...
It’s not as if gaining marriage equality in California makes everything equal for same-sex couples. We’ve still got DOMA—the Defense of Marriage Act—to contend with, and that’s a big problem. Our agenda is to repeal DOMA. So basically, while Courage Campaign and Marriage Equality USA are focusing here in California on repealing [Proposition] 8, our agenda is about repealing DOMA at the federal level.
I think that most same-sex couples don’t recognize how serious the effects of DOMA are until they become married, and then all of a sudden, it’s real. What we’ve found, over the last seven months, is that ...
I think that most same-sex couples don’t recognize how serious the effects of DOMA are until they become married, and then all of a sudden, it’s real. What we’ve found, over the last seven months, is that ...
HIV Ban Repeal The Inside Story (VIDEO)
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DividedByLaw 1057 days ago
(http://www.youtube.com)
Immigration Equality & GMHC worked for years to end the anachronistic HIV Travel & Immigration Ban. In July 2008, Congress repealed the ban, and almost a year later, new regulations are about to be introduced in June of 2009. ...
My boilerplate response to Democratic campaign Requests (The Blend)
Posted by
UnitedByLove 1057 days ago
(http://www.pamshouseblend.com)
We talk a lot about wanting representatives who will display courage and conviction. But the real test of that isn't what they do when it's easy - it's what they do when it's hard. I can't say I've resoundingly seen moves that show any promise that Democrats will fight for people like me on the federal level, and I have gone back to expecting nothing from your party, because that's the best way to avoid disappointment.
The Uniting American Families Act. Gay couples are in a terrible spot with immigration --- even those living in Marriage Equality states. Thanks to DOMA, they can't sponser their spouses. The Supreme Court? ...There is the marriage equality issue, the employment non-discrimination issue, the ability to serve openly in the armed forces issue, the hate crimes law issue, the schools free and safe from bullying issue, the immigration equality for same sex coupl
The Uniting American Families Act. Gay couples are in a terrible spot with immigration --- even those living in Marriage Equality states. Thanks to DOMA, they can't sponser their spouses. The Supreme Court? ...There is the marriage equality issue, the employment non-discrimination issue, the ability to serve openly in the armed forces issue, the hate crimes law issue, the schools free and safe from bullying issue, the immigration equality for same sex coupl
Attendees at the White House lunch for LGBT Leaders (VIDEO)
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DividedByLaw 1058 days ago
(http://carlosqc.blogspot.com)
Yesterday president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama invited a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to the White House, to celebrate the gay civil rights movement.
In this video:
Kate Kendell, Executive Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Wilson Cruz
Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League
Immigration Equality
In this video:
Kate Kendell, Executive Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Wilson Cruz
Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League
Immigration Equality
Follow up Letter to Obama (DAVID LYLE JONES-MUNOZ)
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UnitedByLove 1058 days ago
(http://davidlylejones.blogspot.com)
Dear Mr. President, I was very optimistic to hear your speech to the LGBT today. It gave me hope and pride to hear for the very first time my President make such statements that would directly affect me. Everything you said, directly affects me and my family. I know that there is much to be done and I know that we may seem to be impatient, we are so because these issues affect so many so directly. Ant at this time we do see hope where there was no hope before. I know that it will take time, but so much that needs to be done to bring forward the issues of civil liberties and equality and right the wrongs of the past. The Uniting American Families Act, the reversal of The Defense Of Marriage Act, the reversal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, are just a few of these very issues that need to have Executive attention. Some of theses inhibit my rights and civil liberties directly, that is
How do you Stand on the Side of Love? (Lake County Record-Bee)
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ExileComingHome 1058 days ago
(http://news.google.com)
A gathering assembled Wednesday, June 24, to observe the opening plenary session of the Unitarian Universalist (UU) General Assembly, taking place hundreds of miles away in Salt Lake City, Utah. Enthusiastic cheers responded to the announcement of a new public advocacy campaign that urges everyone, not just UUs, to "Stand on the Side of Love" and promote everyone's worth and dignity. Learn about this fledgling campaign at www.standingonthesideoflove.org/.
Marriage equality is among the new campaign's most immediately visible platforms. Subsequent posts via Twitter and Facebook have also promoted advocacy for "family-friendly" immigration policies.
Marriage equality is among the new campaign's most immediately visible platforms. Subsequent posts via Twitter and Facebook have also promoted advocacy for "family-friendly" immigration policies.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Rea Carey hand-delivered a binder containing messages from nearly 700 supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights to President Obama at the White House's Pride Month reception on June 29.
Late last week, the Task Force solicited the feedback from community members, asking: "What would you say to the president if you had the opportunity?" Many of the responses presented by Carey to the president spotlighted people's stories of discrimination and hopes for equality. Marriage equality, family recognition, nondiscrimination protections, immigration, health care reform, hate crimes and abolishing the military ban were common themes; while the topics were over-arching, the stories were unique and personal.
Late last week, the Task Force solicited the feedback from community members, asking: "What would you say to the president if you had the opportunity?" Many of the responses presented by Carey to the president spotlighted people's stories of discrimination and hopes for equality. Marriage equality, family recognition, nondiscrimination protections, immigration, health care reform, hate crimes and abolishing the military ban were common themes; while the topics were over-arching, the stories were unique and personal.
A Penultimate Step in the Fight to End the HIV Travel Ban
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USABound 1058 days ago
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
In a move that closes the gap between two White House administrations, numerous government agencies and a year-old act of Congress, the Department of Health and Human Services has issued regulations that would end the United States' decades-old HIV travel and immigration ban. Originally authorized as part of President Bush's PEPFAR legislation - thanks, in large part, to the heroic efforts of Senator John Kerry, Congresswoman Barbara Lee and former Senator Gordon Smith - repeal of the ban took a giant leap forward this week with publication of the HHS regulations and a promise from President Obama that his administration is committed to seeing the ban rescinded soon.
Rachel B. Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality, which played a leading role in the repeal effort called the proposed regulations "the penultimate step" toward ending the ban, noting in Newsday that
Rachel B. Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality, which played a leading role in the repeal effort called the proposed regulations "the penultimate step" toward ending the ban, noting in Newsday that
Chocolate Rations Raised Again
Posted by
DividedByLaw 1059 days ago
(http://thisislikesogay.blogspot.com)
The more discussion I've seen on this dust-up, the less I'm inclined to support same-sex marriage. I don't support mixed-sex marriage either, after all. Far from being a matter of equality, as the advocates of same-sex marriage keep saying, marriage is a matter of inequality: inequality between the spouses, and inequality between married couples and other family arrangements -- or between married couples and single persons. One commenter at Alison Bechdel's blog, for example, complained that she and her English partner cannot be together because of the Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents them from being "married in the eyes of the federal government and therefore she has no immigration rights." As the writer said, this is "heartbreaking," but why should someone have to get married to get "immigration rights"? (She didn't explain why she doesn't move to England, where she could marry
Proposal would remove ban on HIV foreigners entry
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USABound 1059 days ago
(http://www.newsday.com)
"This is the penultimate step," said Rachel B. Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality in Washington, D.C. "These regulations are a long time coming. There hasn't been a major HIV scientific conference in the U.S. in decades because of this ban."
President Obama mentions DOMA DADT ENDA but not UAFA
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DividedByLaw 1059 days ago
(http://oblogdeeoblogda.wordpress.com)
President Obama mentioned many an issue on his agenda for LGBT equality today at his meeting with a group of LGBT leaders – but failed to address Immigation Equality. This is not a good sign. I believe the activists for UAFA need a strategy. Ditching DOMA may help but only a few.
When we get all 1,138 Rights, I never want to see ta letter of the ALPHA.BET again!
When we get all 1,138 Rights, I never want to see ta letter of the ALPHA.BET again!
ThePowerOnline Launches LGBT Civil Rights Movement
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DividedByLaw 1059 days ago
(http://thepoweronline.org)
Monday’s Stonewall action builds upon this momentum, as well as on the June 28 Pride March in Manhattan, which honored the Stonewall rebellion, and on the increasing national attention on ENDA, DOMA, DADT, Hate Crimes and the United American Families Act (UAFA), which provides immigration equality for bi-national same-sex couples.
“Even if each of the pieces of legislation passes, they don’t represent the entirety of what it means to be a full citizen with full civil rights,” said The Power’s Campagna, who is also a fundraiser for Democratic candidates and was on Obama’s LGBT Steering Committee.
“Even if each of the pieces of legislation passes, they don’t represent the entirety of what it means to be a full citizen with full civil rights,” said The Power’s Campagna, who is also a fundraiser for Democratic candidates and was on Obama’s LGBT Steering Committee.
The Devil suggests Binationals may get screwed (Melanie Nathan)
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OurHero-Tan 1059 days ago
(http://oblogdeeoblogda.wordpress.com)
If the devil did not advocate, success would go unappreciated. My hope is for the success of Mike Honda’s bill on CIR and that it will include the LGBTQ community in every respect of our right for immigration equality. It would be remiss for comprehensive immigration reform to refuse our community and hence any such bill penned by a democratic author must include our community, that is a given. But should it distract us?
If we expend so much time and our limited lack luster resources on advocating specifically for CIR do we risk being sacrificed as ‘lambs to the slaughter’ only to get dumped at the end of the road when democrats make a deal to garnish the hold out votes of few Republicans for CIR?
The writing is so on the wall, exemplified by President Obama’s failure to mention UAFA or any immigration reform for LGBT rights today.
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If we expend so much time and our limited lack luster resources on advocating specifically for CIR do we risk being sacrificed as ‘lambs to the slaughter’ only to get dumped at the end of the road when democrats make a deal to garnish the hold out votes of few Republicans for CIR?
The writing is so on the wall, exemplified by President Obama’s failure to mention UAFA or any immigration reform for LGBT rights today.
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